On December 11, 1990, the Department received a request from PGV for an 8-year waiver of 60% of the geothermal royalties payable to the State. PGV's estimate was based on a resource (steam) value equaling 33% of the total ...

The Applicant may drill sufficient additional number of wells beyond those needed to produce 25 Megawatts in order to determine whether another 75 Megawatts of electrical energy could be produced from lands subject to ...

A public controversy has arisen over the recent logging and wood chipping operation in native forest at Kalapana. I got involved at a point where the argument of dispute was whether the forest at Kalapana was unique or ...

On 14 November 1987 a biological baseline survey was conducted of the proposed access road and well site 1. The road and well site had recently been surveyed and staked; reference is made throughout this report to "stake ...

This paper will examine the national charter for environmental protection, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and its specific mandates relating to what triggers the key requirement of NEPA, the environmental ...

From cover letter: "Enclosed please find for your information, a copy of Judge David Ezra's June 25, 1991 opinion permanently enjoining all United States funding, permits, participation, and decision making in all activities ...

Pursuant to Act 296, Session Laws of Hawaii 1983, and Act 151, Session laws of Hawaii 1984, the Department of Land and Natural Resources initiated staff work in early 1983 for the designation of geothermal resource subzones ...

Most of the theoretical study on heat and mass transfer in geothermal reservoirs has been based on numerical method. Recently at the 1975 NSF Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Cheng presented a number of ...

Report created for the State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Water Resource Management. To encourage the development of geothermal energy in Hawaii, the Board of Land and Natural Resources ...

Created by Steven E. Morris, Financial Consulting Services for the State of Hawai, Division of Water Resource Management. Revised report on the calculation of royalties for the PGV Project based on the geothermal netback ...

Last month the Tribune-Herald's geothermal reporter David Harada-Stone, travelled to Southern California to see several geothermal plants and how they've fit in with their surrounding communities. Besides touring their ...